Landscaped park at Featherstone Castle (Featherstone)
NY 6760, NY 6761, NY 6861. Featherstone Castle, landscaped grounds. Relatively extensive park village also in area (NY 686616). (1)
Castle and gardens enclosed by an outer wall with turrets and gateways by Hon Thomas Wallace in the 1820s. He also built a mausoleum for his wife. The walls are now covered with ivy and the mausoleum in ruins. (2)
Outbuildings (early 19th century); garden walls, gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and ruins of mausoleum/chapel (c.1812-30): all grade II listed buildings. (3)
Additional bibliography. (4)
In the garden walls south of Hall bank are four openings over stone shelves (pigeon holes). (5)
Featherstone Park, with Featherstone Castle and two lodges. (6a)
A substantial earthwork boundary comprising a bank flanked by ditches was seen as earthworks on air photographs. This bank is assumed to be part of the boundary of Featherstone Park. The boundary is visible for over 210m and is centred at NY 6753 6060. (6b)
Castle and gardens enclosed by an outer wall with turrets and gateways by Hon Thomas Wallace in the 1820s. He also built a mausoleum for his wife. The walls are now covered with ivy and the mausoleum in ruins. (2)
Outbuildings (early 19th century); garden walls, gatehouse, gateways, bastions, beebole and ruins of mausoleum/chapel (c.1812-30): all grade II listed buildings. (3)
Additional bibliography. (4)
In the garden walls south of Hall bank are four openings over stone shelves (pigeon holes). (5)
Featherstone Park, with Featherstone Castle and two lodges. (6a)
A substantial earthwork boundary comprising a bank flanked by ditches was seen as earthworks on air photographs. This bank is assumed to be part of the boundary of Featherstone Park. The boundary is visible for over 210m and is centred at NY 6753 6060. (6b)
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
FIELD SURVEY, RCHME: North Pennines Industrial Archaeology Project ; RCHME
FIELD SURVEY, RCHME: North Pennines Industrial Archaeology Project ; RCHME
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